Australia set up a national inquiry Thursday into its month-long bushfire crisis that affected three in four Australians and prompted widespread criticism of the government for its sluggish response to the blazes. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the vast scale of the fires -- which...

Abu Abdallah has been on the road for days. After his family fled the air strikes pounding Idlib, they moved from one village to another in northwest Syria but have yet to find refuge. "I don't know where to take them," the 49-year-old farmer said from his tractor on the side of a road in...

Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi said Wednesday he has put together a cabinet of political independents and called on parliament to hold an extraordinary session next week to grant it a vote of confidence. Allawi said in a televised speech that if his government wins a...

Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing a Russian-backed Syrian offensive are being squeezed into ever smaller areas near Turkey’s border "under horrendous conditions" in below-freezing temperatures that are killing babies and young children, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Wednesday....